Understanding the full truth of 9/11 seems to require two separate awakenings.

The first, awakening to the fraudulence of the “official 9/11 story,” is a pretty simple brain function and only requires a little study, logic or curiosity. We can help a lot with that part here and it’s a major purpose of this site.

The second step, however, consciously confronting the implications of that knowledge–and what it says about our media, politics and economic system today–is by far the harder awakening and requires an enormous exercise of nerve and heart. (As the Chinese say, “You cannot wake up a man who is pretending to sleep.”) In other words, this part of the journey depends more on character than on maps and evidence so we can’t help you much here, except to point out inspiring heroes and heroines who have courageously faced that truth, spoken out, and survived. (Though we might also point out the intriguing fact that our 9/11 heroines now outnumber 9/11 heroes by about six to one.)

The 911Truth.org Mission: Where we are going with this and where we are not

Although our members and friends in the truth movement hold a variety of opinions about what actually happened on September 11, 2001, 911truth.org as an organization generally believes that our chance for justice is now best served by focusing on the following five points:

The frequently warned of 9/11 attacks handed a lackluster presidency irresistible political power to increase inequality, repression, corporate domination, and imperial warfare (and even boost its electoral clout);

Since this administration benefited so mightily from these crimes, a reasonable person (or investigation) might find it prudent to at least question its possible complicity. Even the minimalist LIHOP (Let It Happen On Purpose) complicity scenario constitutes high treason–i.e., the supposition that high officials knew a blowback attack was coming, understood the incredible poltical power it might confer, and preemptively disabled the few working parts of government that might have been able to thwart its success (by ignoring foreign warnings, quashing domestic investigations, cancelling Counterterrorism Task Force meetings, rewriting air emergency response protocols, staging distracting aerial war games, etc.);

There is now more than enough compelling evidence of just such official misconduct, foul play, perjury and obstruction of justice to constitute probable cause for a full criminal investigation of all 9/11 events;

Despite continuing avoidance of this issue by our Congress, major parties and corporate press, there is widespread public support for this perception and course of action (as demonstrated by the August 2004 Zogby 9/11 Poll);If we as a people refuse to demand truth and justice on a matter this grave, we will deserve our leaders’ contempt and embolden them to further treachery. (They and their predecessors have, after all, gotten away with the now documented lies of the Tonkin Resolution, the JFK and MLK assassinations, Iran-Contra, Flight 800, the Waco Davidian murders, the Pentagon‘s “missing” $2.2 trillion, etc, etc. without consequence. Why should they start worrying about what the “sovereign people” think now?) We have to stand up and draw the line somewhere or we can kiss our hopes for security, solvency and democracy goodbye.

Wildlife to be Avoided

There are a good number of irrational and unsupportable 9/11 theories and theorists “out there” that have been used to great effect to discredit 9/11 truth advocates as whole (Check out Rule 4 in “The Twenty-five Rules of Disinformation” to grasp the tactic and then watch it in action in Popular Mechanics’ recent 9/11 smear). We are therefore also concerned about these spurious plot lines and how they are exploited, and we criticize many on our site. Every large and growing movement picks up a few noisy dunces or provocateurs in the margins, but they do not in any way invalidate the well researched evidence at its core. We only pray that those drawn to the 9/11 issue by sensationalist claims will stay long enough to learn the less theatrical but equally damning truth.

– A sampling of the rare exceptions that prove the media’s hear/see/report no 9/11-evil rule

The Truth About Sept. 11
By Ted Rall, AlterNet, September 11, 2002
First 9/11 questions statement by a well known media figure (one year late and only online, but still much appreciated)

Fallout: The Hidden Environmental Consequences of 9/11
by Juan Gonzalez, In These Times, September 10, 2002
Early prophetic piece on the administration cover-up of the post-attack pollution (Implicit question: If they could condemn thousands of New Yorkers to death just to get the Stock Exchange running, how many would they sacrifice to run Afghanistan and Iraq?)

The Enemy Within
by Gore Vidal, The Observer (UK), October 27, 2002
In a 7,000 word essay and review of Ahmed’s “War on Freedom”, Vidal lays out the early evidence for administration complicity (This stunning piece has never been quoted or even mentioned in the mainstream US press.)

Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush
by Gail Sheehy, New York Observer (front page story), August 25, 2003
First “unanswered questions” story appears in the US press: Best-selling author Sheehy offers this great human and political saga to all New York’s mainstream publications, but only one feisty weekly had the guts to pick it up.

This War on Terrorism is Bogus
The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination
by Michael Meacher, The Guardian/UK, September 6, 2003
First compelling sketch of the motive, means and opportunity for the 9/11 crimes by veteran UK cabinet official.

The Path of Past Precedents– How and why they keep doing it to us,a crash course in official betrayal

FAKE TERROR – The Road to War and Dictatorship
“It’s the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need.”
Excellent retrospective on governmental creation and abuse of terror from the Roman despot Crassus up to the headlines today.